You know it's hot when Death Valley, California, breaks high temperature records.A long-duration, dangerous heat event is setting up for parts of the West that will begin Friday and last into next week.More than 34 million people are under excessive heat watches and warnings across California and the Southwest. Most of the heat alerts go…
(CNN)An unprecedented heatwave in one of the coldest places on Earth just reached a distressing milestone. Temperatures in the small Siberian town of Verkhoyansk hit 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit on Satu…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…